Dream #3

I am sent to a job for the moving company. It doesn’t seem that difficult– A large house, sure, but I’ve done them before. When I get to the house an older man, thick with a dignified paunch and an aura of self-righteousness, begins to give me instructions. Before too much time has passed, I have somehow been drafted into fighting other people in the house. I am there for weeks. I wake up in the morning and begin to train for fighting, and it is horrible. There is another boy there, and he is my main rival.

The boy makes vicious fun of me. He is a complete asshole, and his name is Jon. He goes to a fancy private school in the east, but treats everybody around him with a casual disrespect. He drinks constantly. We fight one day with pole arms. He hits me hard, but neither of us wins.

One day I wake up and the man tells me that it is a death match. I am in the kitchen with the other boy, and we look at each other and immediately grabs forks off the table. I expect a long, drawn out fight, but once I tackle him to the ground it is too easy. I stab him in the leg several times, in his balls, and I finally rip open his throat with repeated fork stabbings. He puts up very little resistance. When I stand up I am horrified at what I have done, and run out of the house. Everything is covered in blood.

I return to the house the next day to help finish the move, which is not done yet. The paunch man tells me that the boy I killed was his son. He was studying to be a lawyer. Paunch man tries to attack me. I run into a closet and lock the door as he and his wife pound on it, demanding to know why I killed their son. As I stand in the closet, I lash back to all the mean things that Jon has said to me. Suddenly I’m not sure if he said them to me or if I said them to him. Was I the evil one all along? I find a second door in the back of the closet and escape.

I return the next day to help finish the move. The Paunch Man comes up and tells me that Jon was engaged to a girl named Mary, and all her family is coming to see his body and to judge me for murdering him. I feel awful, and run away.

I return the next day to help finish the move. The Paunch Man tells me to go and find Jon’s clarinet. I find a huge elementary-school-style plastic case, and open it. I pull out what looks like a clarinet case. I open it and find a soprano saxophone. I think about stealing it, but decide that I wouldn’t really play, and shouldn’t fool myself. I dig deeper in the plastic case and find a clarinet, two glass pipes, and a small, intricately detailed wooden box full of weed. As I pocket the box of weed, a girl from the neighbor's house walks into the room. We leave the house and begin to flirt.

I do not return the next day.